[TowerTalk] Crimp-on connectors for hardline.

[Patrick Greenlee]

Arne, Thanks for the advice. I guess I am so ignorant RE hardline it didn’t 
occur to me.

I have Andrew 1/2 inch heliax with what looks to be a fairly large diameter 
copper covered aluminum center conductor.  It looks to be something like 6 
or 8 gauge.  If the actual part number is needed I will unspool some and try 
to find it. This heliax is copper shield and copper coated aluminum center 
conductor.

Patrick    NJ5G

Update... OK by all accounts I am even more ignorant than I thought, oh 
my...   When Are folks the most dangerous?  When they don't know THAT they 
don't know.
Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

Thanks to everyone for their mild wakeup calls. I guess I was dreaming about 
unicorns and other nonexistent things. I will go forth into YouTube land and 
the Google search engine and come back when I'm a bit less clueless.  Ahh, 
Will Rogers the cowboy philosopher and fine Cherokee lad from Oklahoma said, 
"We are all ignorant, just about different things."  With luck I will be 
able to take one more thing off my very long list.

Thanks again, y'all.

Patrick   NJ5G

-----Original Message----- 
From: TexasRF--- via TowerTalk
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2014 7:57 AM
To: patrick_g at windstream.net ; towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Crimp-on connectors for hardline.

Hi Patrick, the term "hardline" is a catch all for all manner of coax
cables made with a solid outer conductor.

Each type uses a unique connector that typically is installed with a couple
of wrenches. The center pin is installed with solder on smallish sizes and
mechanically on larger sizes. I don't recall any hardline styles that use
crimp  connectors but could be wrong about that.

The key to proper N connector installation is to jump in and learn how to
do it. Once you learn how, they are actually easier than installing a PL259.
You  can start by looking on line for a video. Also, you can learn a lot by
disassembling a used connection to see how the coax was prepared.

A short piece of heat shrink installed after connector assembly is highly
recommended to improve robustness and reliability especially where cable
flexing  will occur.

Many times a length of hardline becomes available and mating connectors
can't be identified or located. This is where ham ingenuity comes to the
rescue  and substitutes can be homebrewed.

73,
Gerald K5GW



In a message dated 12/4/2014 6:36:37 A.M. Central Standard Time,
patrick_g at windstream.net writes:

I have  never personally attached a connector to hardline coax and would
like
recommendations for connectors, source(s) for same, crimping tool(s)
needed
and a good source for those. I'd like suggestions for both N type  as well
as
PL-259 type connectors.  I have been successful installing  Solder type
PL-259 and BNC as well as some crimp types on "regular" coax  of various
types and have used a number of N type terminated cables but  never
installed
one.  I am curious regarding the crimp type.  I  pose these questions here
because of my confidence in the caliber of  experience and abilities I have
witnessed in so many different aspects of  our hobby.

73,

Patrick    NJ5G


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